Been using Linux for the last 2 years as my main driver, before that was always on Windows. I switched to Linux for minor coding and privacy concerns with Windows. However, the only software that I wasn’t able to find a good alternative for in Linux is CaptureOne which I use for photo editing.
The work around I’ve been using is running CaptureOne in a Windows VM machine… but it’s janky and a terrible usage of my computers resources. The VM takes a fixed amount of RAM so I often run into issues where the VM crashes, or, linux crashes because they can’t manage RAM resources together. I upgraded to 32GB of Ram to try and solve this, but, it’s been a no-go. The VM also can’t utilize the GPU so, that’s been an annoyance.
Current computer: i5-126000k RTX 3060TI 8GB 32GB RAM Ubuntu
Wanted to see if anyone here uses CaptureOne on a MacMiniM4 16GB RAM and can comment on it’s performance for both editing and batch processing. My big concern is RAM, and if 16GB is enough. Seems like Apple is more efficient with RAM though?
High usage would generally have a browser with up to 10 tabs, maybe a video playing on my second screen, and then CaptureOne Full screen.
Think the M4 16GB would be enough? Budget is tight.
Am an Apple user and have been for over 30 years. But it seems to me that the solution here would be to replace CaptureOne with something like RawTherapee instead of replacing Linux with Apple, wouldn’t it?
That said, I’ve been using Affinity Photo on macOS ever since I abandoned CS6, and it has worked great for my purposes, which may differ from yours (fewer complicated RAW pipelines and more integration with DTP).
That said, my last Mac I bought was an M4 MBP with 32GB RAM; I’d never buy lower than 32GB at this point, especially since the RAM is shared with the GPUs, so complex graphics workflows can eat up RAM really fast.
Noted about the 32GB. I appreciate that note.
I’ve tried Darktable and Ansel, but, neither really fit my workflow. I haven’t tried RawTherapee yet. So, maybe I should try that. One of the big disadvantages is I’ll lose all the edits I do have :/ which will suck.
What I did when I made the transition was: keep the sources, keep the backup of the edits, keep the exported edits. There were a surprisingly few number that I needed to go back to, especially considering 10-15 years of Lightroom use.
Does CaptureOne run in/with WINE?
CaptureOne does not run on wine. Some users have said they got it to launch after extensive efforts, but it crashes and fails to function otherwise. I’ve tried DarkTable and Ansel as well, but, neither fit my current workflow.
How about winapps (docker based, since docker isn’t a full VM it should be good performance) https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
I have both an M4 Mac mini and a PC build with an i9 12100K and an RTX 3060. The M4 absolutely smokes my PC except in GPU benchmarks. However, because the M4 has more integrated memory for the GPU compared to the 3060, I still find its overall performance to be an improvement. I’ve used CaptureOne before but I primarily work with the Affinity suite now. I think you will find 16 GB sufficient, but I would highly recommend 32 GB to give yourself headroom.
Not an apple user but have you tried Photopea as an alternative to CaptureOne it’s basically a browser version of Photoshop
Had never heard of Photopea - just gave it a quick 5min spin… am amazed something like this exists. I think the only issue with it is it doesn’t fulfill the catalog aspect of C1 that is semi-important… I see you can download the edits as .psd… so maybe I just use a regular file browser as the catalog basically? I will have to ponder this. It’s certainly an interesting option I didn’t realize exists. Thank you.
